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Adm Board
Distance: 3.3 Mi100 W Cedar St
44307 Akron -
Portage Path Behavorial Health
Distance: 3.7 Mi340 S Broadway St
44308 Akron -
COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES
Distance: 3.9 Mi150 Cross St
44311 Akron -
Akron Family Institute Inc
Distance: 9.8 Mi3469 Fortuna Dr
44312 Akron -
Community Services
Distance: 20.5 Mi876 Amherst Rd NE
44646-8528 Massillon
Description
EMERGE has its taproot in a painful chapter of Dr. Dobbins' personal life. When he and his first wife, Dolores were expecting their first child, complications including a Caesarean-section birth caused Dolores to experience severe postpartum depression. This was during the late 1940s, a time when an intense antipathy existed between psychiatry and religion. Dr. Dobbins recalls that episode in their lives this way: "When we looked to the medical world for help, they blamed her problem on religion and urged us to get her out of her 'crazy religion,' reassuring us that this would result in her recovery. On the other hand, when we looked to the church for help, her devotional life came under scrutiny. We were told that she needed to spend more time in prayer and reading God's Word every day.